This piece has intrigued me from the beginning. It was recorded as coming from the village of Deir el-Medina on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes, southern Egypt, whereas its style tells me it comes ...

A pair of carved stone statues used as garden ornaments have sold for more than 195,000 ($265,510) after it was revealed that they were ancient Egyptian relics dating back thousands of years, an ...

New research outlines the possible theories. A Scottish schoolboy made quite the discovery in 1952 when he was digging up potatoes and instead found an ancient Egyptian statue in the ground. Now, ...

In the 1920s, archaeologists excavating the necropolis of Deir el-Bahri near Luxor, Egypt, found many broken statues of the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut—one of the civilization’s few female ...

CAIRO – The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced official opening, ...

A surprising discovery at the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt has revealed a funerary statue that is unlike anything seen before from the Old Kingdom. This unique statue, dating back to the Fifth Dynasty ...

Who was Queen Hatshepsut and why was she important? Hatshepsut ruled as the pharaoh of Egypt around 3,500 years ago. Her reign was an exceptionally successful one – she was a prolific builder of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Trust’s placard serves to recognise ‘appalling histories of slavery and the slave trade’ The National Trust has put a ...

A treasure heading to a Maryland collector was intercepted by federal authorities, and now is expected to be shipped back to Egypt. Federal prosecutors in Maryland say they’ve finalized the forfeiture ...

View post: Amazon’s Bestselling Snow Cleats With 'Solid Grip' Are On Sale for as Little as $15 Right Now Researchers who pulled the ancient treasures from Abu Qir Bay believe they belonged to the city ...